Sentence examples for by a devotion to from inspiring English sources

His genuine passion for medicine was rivaled only by a devotion to family.

His first studies at the University of Basel, supplemented by a stay in Neuchâtel, were dominated by a devotion to Greek.

Many Saudi and Saudi-trained clerics are quietist, characterized by a devotion to scripture and prayer and a shunning of politics, let alone political violence.

Mr. Ranard said painters had no place to show or sell their work in Myanmar and were driven solely by a devotion to their art.

The husband and wife appear to have been motivated by a devotion to violent jihad, but the authorities have not connected them publicly to any extremists overseas.

Mr. Muti performs with an Apollonian sense of proportion and precision, and a dramatic flair offset by a devotion to textual propriety.

"I want to tell our citizens in every part of the Nation that the national Congress – Republicans and Democrats alike – showed by this action a devotion to public welfare and a realization of the emergency and the necessity for speed that it is difficult to match in our history".

But the habits of thought -- the strategies people adopted in processing information and making sense of the world around them -- were, Western scholars assumed, the same for everyone, exemplified by, among other things, a devotion to logical reasoning, a penchant for categorization and an urge to understand situations and events in linear terms of cause and effect.

His congregation, which had never numbered more than 25, grew in the next few years to include a kind of nonsectarian contingent of writers, performers and, eventually, 3,500 season-ticket subscribers — a group Mr. Lanier described as bound less by religious affiliation than by a common devotion to theater with a capital "T".

From interviews with Mr. Wang's friends, relatives and co-workers, both in the city and in China, a profile emerged of a man who was guided by a deep devotion to his family and who lived a life of continual struggle, embodying many of the hallmarks of the immigrant experience among the latest Chinese newcomers to New York.

In 1988, united by a nerdish devotion to Ralph Lauren and an implicit understanding that department-store security guards were ill-equipped to deal with packs of forty or fifty kids at once, they christened themselves the Lo Lifes.